Essential Books on Freemasonry and Freemasons

The list author says: "The term Illuminati stems from the Latin verb illuminare, which literally means to give light and to reveal. Every man and women whose blood retains the secrets of this hidden Heritage knows there has existed already One Ancient Order of Epopts united in the bonds of brotherhood and in perfect beauty, ordained to act as an exterior collegium regium in order to preserve and safeguard the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity. All occult teachings emit from initiatory visions of Arte birthed now and again within silent inheritances of Magi hidden in the libraries at Alexandria, in the Caves at Qumran and Nag Hammadi, preserved in the libraries of the Vatican, in Alexandria, Pergamum and practiced in the Tibetan monasteries of the Himalayas, and within the Pyramids of Gizeh."